Having a family means you’re never alone.
I’d make a snide comment about the youths of america but I’m too impressed by the fact that she’s reading something other than Fifty Shades of Grey.
Some stains never wash out.
Forgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal. They’re not mutually exclusive.
Any military man will tell you that the way to pull two divided groups together is to give them a common enemy. This is what Hitler did, when he came to power in 1933 as chancellor.
If you spend too much time living in the past, you never move forward.
I am angry at myself, at the world, but because it is easier, I lash out at him.
He swaggered over to my mother, and kissed her so long and slow that my own cheeks started to burn, because I was sure the neighbors would see. When he lifted his head, my mother’s eyes were a color I had never seen before and don’t think I have ever seen again.
It reminded Lacy of running into someone you hadn’t seen for a while, and finding her bald and missing her eyebrows: you knew she was in the throes of chemotherapy, but pretended you didn’t, because it was easier that way for both of you.
Is there anything more solid, more right, than knowing you child was where she ought to be?
It was the sort of place where you could hear the tumblers of your mind falling into place as you pieced thought together, as you tried to match it to action.
Jos plaukai dabar yra ilgesni, o abipus jos burnos matyti dvi plonos rauksles, tarytum kliausteliai, gaubiantys milijona zodziu, kuriu as neturejau galimybes isgirsti.
I had to learn how to be a mother before I realized how lucky I am to be a child.
If you think you’re fine, you’ll start to believe it.
No matter how educated you are, no matter how irrational it seems, you will follow a glimmer of hope.
My husband hogs the remote,” Shayla says. “He says it’s because women control everything else.” “Actually, it’s instinct,” Stuart says. “The part of the brain that’s territorial is bigger in men than it is in women. I heard it on John Tesh.
What he did was wrong. He doesn’t deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it’s choked and overrun. The only person who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you.
I had come to see, too, that all my characters and I were motivated by the same inspiration. Whether it was power they sought, or revenge, or love – well, those were all just different forms of hunger. The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.
Don’t you wish love was so strong it could come back to haunt you?
Kate is going to die. It took me a long time to be able to say that. We all are going to die, when you get down to it, but it’s not supposed to be like this. Kate ought to be the one saying goodbye to me.